The Lovelady plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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5.34 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1904. The next wettest, 4.38 inches, fell in 1907.
Lovelady’s center stands about 300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Yegua Formation (claystone, sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Lovelady reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Tantabogue Creek and the Trinity: about 170 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
120 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lovelady; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lovelady has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lovelady normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.65 in, fell in 1927.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Crockett, 12 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
